R SOC375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Movement Organization, Stakeholder Analysis, Centrality

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC375
• Professor: John Parkins

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Lec 3 stakeholders and framing environmental controversies. Historically means refusal to defer to faith . Factors influencing forest values and attitudes of 2 stakeholder groups: the case of the foothills model forest, ab, canada. Benford and snow (2000) read pg 611-622 intro, collective action frames gurus of framing theory. Frames help to render events or occurrences] meaningful and thereby function to organize experience and guide action. Collective action frames also simplify and condense aspects of the world out there in ways that are intended to mobilize potential adherents and constituents, to garner bystander support and demobilize antagonists. Thus, collective action frames are action-oriented sets of beliefs and meanings that inspire and legitimate the activities and campaigns of a social movement organization (smo) Movement actors are viewed as signifying agents actively engaged in the production and maintenance of meaning for constituents, antagonists, and bystanders or observers.